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Apple to introduce search ads on App Store along with changes to app review, discovery and splits | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 6 | 8 | Just ahead of its annual WWDC conference, Apple has announced a series of changes to its App Store, aimed at improving the experience for both developers and consumers alike. According to Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, Phil Schiller, , the company is working to speed up the time it takes apps to go live... |
Google adds U.S. Cellular’s network to extend Project Fi’s coverage | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 6 | 8 | Google today that it has added , one of the larger regional carriers in the U.S., to its . U.S. Cellular joins Google’s existing network partners T-Mobile and Sprint. What makes Project Fi different from mobile virtual network operators like Boost Mobile or MetroPCS is that it doesn’t just rely on a single networ... |
The gaming industry can become the next big target of cybercrime | Ben Dickson | 2,016 | 6 | 8 |
Video-game-related crime is almost as old as the industry itself. But while illegal copies and pirated versions of games were the previous dominant form of illicit activities related to games, have created new possibilities for cybercriminals to swindle huge amounts of money from an industry that is worth . And wh... |
FinAccel takes on Southeast Asia’s lending industry with easy online credit service | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 6 | 1 | Credit card penetration is one of those problems that isn’t really a ‘problem’ in the West. In the U.S. alone, at least one credit card, with 18 percent of consumers in the country owning two or three cards. That high level of credit adoption is one factor that has helped online commerce take off in the West. Or, to ... |
Elon Musk doesn’t think Google will compete with Tesla — but Apple could | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 6 | 1 | Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk is watching the competition closely — including electric cars from existing manufacturers, and of course, potentially Apple. But he said at Vox Media’s Code Conference that he doesn’t view Google as a potential competitor. More clearly, he views that companies that might choose to work with G... |
Elon Musk wants people on Mars by 2025 | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 6 | 1 | One can never underestimate the ambition of SpaceX and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk. After making a bold adjustment to Tesla Motors’ outlook, , Musk now says that he says SpaceX may be able to have people on Mars by 2025. More specifically, he expects to launch a manned mission to Mars in 2024, which would arrive in 202... |
How one Italian entrepreneur’s business changed after riding along with Rocket Internet | Marcello Mari | 2,016 | 6 | 1 |
It was a fairytale beginning. In the early days of 2015, the German behemoth Rocket Internet announced the acquisition of Italy’s first food delivery service, PizzaBo, for 51 Million euros. It was the third largest exit for a startup ever recorded in the Italian market and the first ever acquisition in Italy by Rocke... |
Crunch Report | Internet Trends Report 2016 | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 6 | 1 | Tito Hamze
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Uber takes its most significant investment yet at $3.5 billion from Saudi Arabia | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 6 | 1 | announced today it took $3.5 billion from Public Investment Fund (PIF), Saudi Arabia’s main investment fund as part of its latest round. The new investment is the largest to date for the ridesharing giant and brings the total balance of both cash and debt to more than $11 billion but doesn’t increase the company’s cur... |
Tumblr blocked in China before Tiananmen Square massacre anniversary | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 6 | 1 | is now apparently inaccessible in China. , a non-profit that monitors censorship by the Chinese government, first spotted the lockout earlier this week. . gets completely blocked in China. Sadly, HowHighAreXiJinping’sPantsToday?
lost in collateral damage — GreatFire.org (@GreatFireChina) Unlike other social media... |
Intel CEO, known for diversity efforts, cancels Trump fundraiser | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 6 | 1 | Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, widely known for his efforts to improve diversity in the technology industry, planned to host a fundraiser at his home for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump this week. But after an Intel spokesperson fielded questions from the New York Times about the fundraiser, the event was can... |
Forbes downgrades Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes net worth from $4.5 billion to Theranothing | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 6 | 1 | Elizabeth Holmes, the once celebrated founder of Theranos, sat at number one on Forbes list of last year but has taken quite the tumble – the media outlet has since revalued her net worth to zilch. Holmes, 31, comes from a family with powerful political connections – both parents held important government positions in... |
Review: TUMI’s Luke Roll Top manages to be a charming business backpack | Stefan Etienne | 2,016 | 6 | 1 | Though the TUMI Luke Roll Top is expensive for a backpack, it partially makes up for this by taking a military-inspired look (the roll top) and heavily stylizing it. This says a lot, considering that TUMI typically focuses on appealing to the business aesthetic, rather than just selling pretty backpacks — it just so ha... |
Amazon sues sellers for buying fake reviews | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 6 | 1 | Seller beware — if you buy reviews for your products on Amazon, the company might sue you. As part of its effort to combat fake reviews on its platform, Amazon sued three of its sellers today for using sock puppet accounts to post fake reviews about their products. Amazon has been aggressively pursuing reviewers it doe... |
The trends driving electric vehicle development | Ion Yadigaroglu | 2,016 | 6 | 1 |
In case you weren’t paying attention, something amazing just happened to the automobile industry. The recent unveiling of Tesla’s Model 3 resulted in the largest product pre-order in history. The fact that within days of launch about 400,000 people paid $1,000 each for a car they will receive in 2018 is simply astoun... |
Box down 7% despite “strong quarter” | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 6 | 1 | CEO Aaron Levie told TechCrunch that the reason the $75.9 million in billings missed the mark is because of the seasonality of its business. “Larger customer transactions are happening in Q2 and beyond,” said Levie. Wall Street was expecting the billings to come in closer to $84.1 million. The company added Airbnb and ... |
Thread, the U.K. personal styling service for men, picks out £4M funding led by Beringea | Steve O'Hear | 2,016 | 6 | 1 | , the U.K. personal styling service for men that uses a mixture of algorithms and humans to help solve the online clothes shopping problem, has raised a further round of funding. This time growth investor is leading a £4 million round (approx. $5.7 million), with participation from Balderton Capital and a number of... |
Social Nature raises $1M to promote natural products with influencer marketing | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 6 | 1 | We at TechCrunch, but has a unique focus — natural products. The company is announcing it has raised $1 million in seed funding from investors, including Shopify co-founder Scott Lake, the Pereira/Wharton family, the founders of Pomme Natural Markets and Simon Whitfield ( ) and Brenda Irwin of Relentless Pursuit Pa... |
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Tubular Labs raises $10 million to measure online videos across social platforms | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 6 | 1 | Just how popular was that video of the mom laughing in her ? And how did that video stack up against the one that went viral in January? Are videos published by Last Week Tonight watched more or shared more than videos published by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert? Mountain View, Calif.-based is using big data a... |
Mediachain enivisions a blockchain-based tool for identifying artists’ work across the internet | Jonathan Shieber | 2,016 | 6 | 1 | On the internet, where “aggregation” is often , not everyone appreciates the compliment. Content (in all its forms) is increasingly both the commodity and currency of the digital era, but the speed and ease of near-instantaneous global communication and a capacity for infinite reproduction has served to make it easier... |
TheSkimm just raised $8 million, led by 21st Century Fox | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 6 | 1 | Newsletter startup has raised $8 million in Series B funding from what looks to be a very strategic investor: , which was joined by earlier backers . If you’re wondering what a newsletter might have in common with a global TV and film giant, the answer centers on theSkimm’s ambitions. To date, the four-year-old, Ne... |
Why gaze tracking startup Cogisen is eyeing the Internet of Things | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 6 | 1 | How will you interact with the Internet of Things in your smart home of the future? Perhaps by looking your connected air conditioning unit in the lens from the comfort of your sofa and fanning your face with your hand to tell it to crank up its cooling jets. At least that’s the vision of Italian startup , which is ho... |
Google AI produces a melody that rivals the Casio keyboard concerts of our youth | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 6 | 1 | It’s 1989. Your parents are watching the Berlin Wall being torn down, but you’re upstairs in your room, fresh batteries in your Casio SA-1, prepping for your concert. The built-in beats are hot. You’ve been listening to the and you think you’ve been inspired. You select instrument number 02, “HONKY-TONK PIANO.” It’s ... |
Verizon will make a $3B second-round bid for Yahoo’s Internet business, says WSJ | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 6 | 6 | Verizon may be moving closer towards purchasing Yahoo’s main Internet assets. According to a new , the telecommunications giant wants to make a $3 billion second-round bid for Yahoo. TPG, a private equity firm, also plans to submit a bid. Second-round offers are due by Monday and WSJ’s sources say Yahoo will hold at l... |
YC’s Instabug raises $1.7M Seed round led by Accel to grow beyond bugs | Mike Butcher | 2,016 | 6 | 6 | I came across Instabug when I was in Cairo in 2013. Little did I know that this plucky startup, born in the Arab Spring, would eventually make it through Y Combinator’s Winter 2016 class. Now they have gone on to raise $1.7M in a Seed round led by Accel Partners to expand beyond their original aim of mobile app bug rep... |
Tips for mitigating the risks of rookie founders from Spark Capital’s Bijan Sabet | Harry Stebbings | 2,016 | 6 | 6 |
The phrase, “I’m sorry, we just need someone with more experience” is a common refrain when job hunting and when looking for capital. Today, when fundraising, the majority of investors privilege serial entrepreneurs over first-time founders. Bijan Sabet, a general partner at , has decided to buck that trend. “First-... |
Instagram enables iOS share extensions to make posting photos faster | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 6 | 6 | The latest update makes it easier to post from other iOS apps. Instagram has enabled share extensions, which means users can now send pictures directly to their feeds from apps like Photos. Share extensions became available to developers . Apps that already have the share option enabled include (Instagram’s parent... |
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Blue Origin continues successful, record-setting year with another NASA contract | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 6 | 6 | , the rocket company started by Jeff Bezos, has with NASA to fly and test technology payloads on suborbital flights with the New Shepard launch vehicle. Bezos’ company is the sixth partner that NASA has selected through the Suborbital Reusable Launch Vehicle Flight and Payload Integration Services program. Blue Origi... |
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Why the recent hype about insurance tech will be just the beginning | TX Zhuo | 2,016 | 6 | 6 |
For those who follow technological innovation, it can often seem like certain areas of investor enthusiasm come out of nowhere — suddenly and with huge momentum. The wave analogy is often used, and not incorrectly — fevered investment propels increasing interest and drives new opportunistic entrepreneurs into a speci... |
Researchers find a way to snoop on you through your phone’s vibration motor | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 6 | 6 | Cover up your webcam, disable microphone access and put on your tinfoil hat — but it won’t make any difference, because the Illuminati can get at you through your phone’s vibration motor now. Well, kind of, anyway. Your best defense? Talk in a high voice. The research comes from Romit Roy Choudhury and Nirupam Roy, a... |
Waking up with Pavlok’s wrist-shocking wearable alarm clock | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 6 | 6 | I can’t help but think about shock collars when I wrap the bright orange silicone around my wrist. They’ve always seemed fairly cruel. And yet, here I go, putting one on myself — not for barking or wandering out of the yard, but for the crime of having a hard time getting my butt out of bed at 6AM. And while I certainl... |
Hibob raises $7.5M to help SMEs manage their people (and those pesky workplace pensions) | Steve O'Hear | 2,016 | 6 | 6 | — yes we’re running that low on company names — is a new U.K. startup building out a cloud platform that helps businesses manage their people. It offers various HR tools, such as management of employee perks, staff engagement and reducing churn, and, perhaps crucially, “auto-enrolment,” which relates to recent pension... |
$30M Stampede 2 supercomputer will provide 18 petaflops of data-crunching power to researchers nationwide | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 6 | 6 | Watch out, global supercomputer Top 5, there’s a new contender. Or at least there will be soon, once the $30 million Stampede 2 is up and running. With 18 petaflops peak processing capacity, the new system will stand shoulder to shoulder with Cray’s Titan and IBM’s Sequoia — though a good deal behind China’s Tianhe-2. ... |
T-Mobile is giving every customer a share of its stock | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 6 | 6 | T-Mobile had another of its un-carrier events today, which now have so many regular giveaways they are starting to look like an episode of Oprah. First, the company announced that every current T-Mobile account holder on a postpaid plan will get one share of common stock in the company, which is . New qualifying custo... |
Photo-sharing app for health professionals, Figure1, adds direct messaging | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 6 | 6 | which started out as a photo-sharing app for medical professionals, has quietly added direct messaging to its platform, showing signs the startup wants to be more of a Facebook and less of an Instagram in its field. Toronto- and New York-based Figure1 only allows full access to its platform to users who are verified m... |
SOLS CEO Kegan Schouwenburg on the ups and downs of running a 3D printed orthotics startup | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 6 | 6 | “Sometimes I think back on that moment and think I must have been utterly insane,” Kegan Schouwenburg says with a laugh. “In retrospect, we were bringing out a new product with a new method in the medical sector, and we were going to work with doctors and sell a product through an app in an entirely new way that peop... |
Microsoft officially launches Planner, its Trello competitor | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 6 | 6 | The Microsoft Office lineup is today: Microsoft , team collaboration software that lets you visually organize plans, assign tasks, share files, chat and more. The new app, , enters a competitive space which includes pro software like Atlassian’s JIRA Core, as well as other easy-to-use tools from startups like Trell... |
Uber intros ‘pause,’ discounts, and other quality-of-life features on new driver-focused blog | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 6 | 6 | The debut post on Uber’s new driver-focused blog brings with it several features those very drivers may find useful — especially when clocking out. A “pause” switch lets drivers temporarily turn off new ride requests so they can grab a coffee or take a break. Hitting pause also lets drivers end their day cleanly, wit... |
DOZ launches Quoter, a semi-automated service to get a quote and hire marketing freelancers | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 6 | 6 | While has been around for a while, the company is adding a nifty brick to its product offering with an automated tool to get a quote and launch a marketing campaign. Compared to good old marketing agencies, DOZ speeds up the hiring process quite a bit. If you aren’t familiar with DOZ, the best way to describe it is t... |
Microsoft bets on Apache Spark to power its big data and analytics services | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 6 | 6 | Microsoft today that it is making a serious commitment to the open source cluster computing framework. After dipping its toes into the Spark ecosystem , the company today launched a number of Spark-based services out of preview and announced that the on-premises version of (which uses the increasingly popular op... |
Facebook Live attacks Twitch with game streaming | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 6 | 6 | If people spend a lot of time doing something on the Internet, you can bet Facebook wants a piece. Its latest conquest attempt is the video game streaming business ruled by Twitch and YouTube. Today, Facebook announced its working with World Of Warcraft maker Blizzard to build social login and Facebook Live video strea... |
Unscaling politics | Hemant Taneja | 2,016 | 6 | 6 |
It’s the end of politics as we know it. And no, Donald Trump doesn’t get all the credit. America’s two major political parties are in the process of being unscaled. They’re being pulled apart and disrupted like so many other industries and institutions today. Pundits blame Donald Trump for the turmoil plaguing the Re... |
“Let me see your phone” | Matthew Panzarino | 2,016 | 6 | 24 | Here’s one for your Friday. An older video, unearthed by a few days ago has been blowing up on the network. This group poem, performed by and , is one of the best expressions I’ve seen of love and trust in the digital age. “Settings>Privacy Settings>System Services>Location Services>Frequent Locations” We’ve all b... |
The last driver license holder | Mario Herger | 2,016 | 6 | 24 |
Say hello to Liam. He recently celebrated his first birthday. Not only is he a cutie, he is the last person to get a driver license. Impossible? Not in your lifetime? I admit: I don’t know if Liam will be the last person to get a driver license. It could be Sophia or Ethan. This person may live right around the corne... |
Faraday Future says it is also making an autonomous car | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 6 | 24 | Chinese-backed electric car maker says it is working on a self-driving vehicle. The company not so by LeTV joins a growing list of tech companies making autonomous cars, including Google, Tesla, Apple (big rumor) and even IBM now . Faraday revealed its first concept car, the , at CES earlier this year — an electr... |
Why a Palantir IPO might not be far off | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 6 | 24 | Earlier this week, BuzzFeed got its hands on a arranged by for its employees, one that asked current and former employees to agree to a host of stipulations. Among them, the 12-year-old, data analytics outfit asked former employees to renew their non-disclosure agreements, agree not to solicit Palantir employees fo... |
Ladar Levison finally confirms Snowden was target of Lavabit investigation | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 6 | 24 | Ladar Levison’s three-year fight for freedom to speak about the government order that shuttered Lavabit, his secure email service, is finally over. Levison was finally able to today that Lavabit was targeted by the government during its investigation into the Edward Snowden leaks. Although Apple’s legal battle to kee... |
JBL’s Charge 3 waterproof speakers are big on battery and bass | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 6 | 24 | I do the same thing every time I get a waterproof device – I take it home, fill up the sink and dunk it. It’s a strangely cathartic, a sort of gadget baptism, and nicely refreshing for someone who spends so much of his time cautiously handling expensive hardware devices. The only thing that beats it are those companies... |
What UK startups make of the shocking Brexit vote | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 6 | 24 | Tory government, Brexit has been an awful prospect hanging over U.K. startups since this time last year — the vast majority of which strongly hoped to remain in the European Union. Shock, disbelief and disappointment were common sentiments among the startups TechCrunch spoke to, many of which had scrambled emergency m... |
Can the smartphone cure Zika? | Shawn DuBravac | 2,016 | 6 | 24 |
The smartphone has become the digital Swiss Army Knife of modern life. Beyond making phone calls, it takes pictures and videos, facilitates purchases, connects us to our social networks, helps us navigate around town and runs applications for almost any imaginable purpose — including one you couldn’t imagine. Today’s... |
President Obama calls for diversity efforts and openness with Mark Zuckerberg at GES | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 6 | 24 | praised tech companies’ efforts to improve diversity in their workforces and called for governments around the world to embrace openness and transparency today at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit. Obama encouraged companies to continue hiring workers from diverse backgrounds, citing tech companies’ diversity reports... |
Review: Acton’s Blink Board is a quirky board with an unpolished remote | Stefan Etienne | 2,016 | 6 | 24 | As you can already tell, this is an electric skateboard. , and it won’t be my last. But here’s something I learned the past few days: Acton’s budget-friendly electric skateboard has been the least fulfilling of the electric rolling planks I’ve ridden. Summed up, it’s an electric skateboard with a few quirks. Unlike w... |
ATM skimmer caught in the wild by a real security engineer | John Biggs | 2,016 | 6 | 24 | [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll4f0Wim4pM] Whoda thunk it? Tourist/cybersecurity expert was hanging out in Vienna when he walked up to an ATM. Because he trusts no one he decided to give the reader a little tug and came away with a working skimmer designed to look exactly like the card slot on the original... |
WhatsApp hits 100 million calls per day | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 6 | 24 | In February, Facebook-owned WhatsApp announced it had worldwide, and this week, the company added another metric to demonstrate its ongoing traction and growth. According to a brief on the company blog, WhatsApp claims that it’s now handling more than 100 million voice calls per day on its service. This is equivalen... |
Oculus removes hardware DRM that locked games onto its headset | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 6 | 24 | An Oculus update posted today quietly removes a feature that blocked Oculus software from being played on other headsets — something that the community has been up in arms about for a month. The update, Runtime 1.5, doesn’t include the feature retraction . The news came from the creator of Revive, a tool that allowed ... |
A running tab of what tech people think about whether we’re living in a simulation | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 6 | 24 | Are we living in a simulation? For whatever reason, this is a hot topic in Silicon Valley these days. It all more or less started when Tesla Motors CEO (and SolarCity CEO — check one off for the simulation argument there) Elon Musk that there’s such a high chance that we’re living in a simulation that it’s more lik... |
YouTube expands creator outreach with new features, better support | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 6 | 24 | Along with news that it’s in its main mobile application, YouTube also this week a series of new features for its creator community. The details, which include a new , better support, a benefits program and other tools, were unveiled Thursday at VidCon, an event focused on online video and digital culture. In a ke... |
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Omni Calculator brings math to the masses | John Biggs | 2,016 | 6 | 24 | There are some men who want to watch the the world burn and others who want to offer it easily customizable embedded calculators. Mateusz Mucha belongs to the latter camp. Mucha is a sociologist by training who has built multiple small startups. His latest project, , is completely bootstrapped and has three employees ... |
Is the future of VR NVIDIA, Sony and Apple? | Ondrej Homola | 2,016 | 6 | 24 |
Virtual reality is all the buzz nowadays. And why wouldn’t it be when analysts like make estimates that the industry is poised to surpass the TV market in annual revenue by 2025. That would make virtual reality bigger than TV in less than 10 years. These estimates are so massive because the breakthrough technology ... |
YouTube can still win the livestreaming war | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 6 | 24 | YouTube, sounding a little miffed that , reminded its community that it has been offering livestreaming on its site since 2011, “before it was cool,” in a series of announcements emerging from this week’s VidCon event. That may be true, but a single-purpose app like Periscope is easier to use, which aided in its ado... |
Today is the last day to save $1,200 on Disrupt SF tickets | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 6 | 24 | Attention, budget-conscious tech enthusiasts. Today is the last day to get tickets at the deeply discounted extra-early-bird price point of $1,795 apiece — $1,200 off the full ticket price and $200 cheaper than they’ll be tomorrow. So seriously, stop what you’re doing and to get your extra-early-bird tickets to the... |
Bitcoin surges past $650 as Brexit result sends UK Pound tumbling to 30-year low | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 6 | 23 | The global finance markets are slipping on Friday after the UK public voted to leave the EU, but there is one currency that is reveling in the uncertainty of the Brexit result: bitcoin. The cryptocurrency is notoriously difficult to predict. rose as high as $1,000 in 2013 and, while it has stabilized somewhat since t... |
Flirtey delivers drugs by drone from ship to shore in New Jersey | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 6 | 23 | The Jersey Shore is finally famous for something besides fake tanning. A Reno, Nevada-based startup called conducted the first domestic “ship to shore” drone delivery this week along the New Jersey coastline. The company’s proprietary drone is a six-rotor system constructed from carbon fiber, aluminum and 3-d printed... |
What the actual hell, Britain? | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 6 | 23 | As I’m writing this, it looks as if Britain has voted to leave the EU. It’s hitting me like a ton of EU-approved bricks, because this decision just simply doesn’t make sense. Part of me — a very big part, I hasten to add — strongly believes in democracy, and if this really is what the want, then so be it. The people ... |
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Twitter quietly launches tags to location feeds with Foursquare | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 6 | 24 | let you see when tweets are from a specific place, like a business, sports stadium, or music festival. After a reader tipped us off, Twitter confirmed to TechCrunch it’s now rolling out this new location feature to all iOS users, with other platforms coming later. [Update: What’s new is that specific location tags no... |
iZotope, Photoshop for sound, closes another $7.5M in financing | John Mannes | 2,016 | 6 | 23 | What does the trailer to Inception, a re-mastered Rolling Stones record and the podcast Serial all have in common? They’re all awesome. Their creators also all used products in the background to make them shine. , started by a group of MIT undergrads in 2001, hustled their way onto the competitive music scene by firs... |
The automation of design | Kai Brunner | 2,016 | 6 | 23 |
Murphy’s Law decrees: “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.” For any of us whose livelihood depends on our labor, things going wrong could mean: “Anything that can be automated, will be automated.” Our labor or skill in exchange for pay has undoubtedly caused us to seek security in the notion that we’ll be fore... |
On the floor of The New York Stock Exchange at Twilio’s IPO | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 6 | 23 | Today Twilio braved the public markets and did what no technology startup has done all year – go public. The company began trading this morning on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol TWLO, and didn’t disappoint. After pricing at $15 dollars, the stock opened at $23.99 per share and closed at $28.79 — a ... |
Start your speculation engines, Apple is discontinuing its Thunderbolt Display | Matthew Panzarino | 2,016 | 6 | 23 | Apple today announced that it is discontinuing its Thunderbolt Display, the large external display many use to connect to MacBooks or other Macs for extra screen real estate. This is very likely to fuel speculation (which has been ) that Apple will soon launch a 4K or 5K version of the display. The current Mac’s displ... |
13 TechCrunch stories you don’t want to miss this week | Anna Escher | 2,016 | 6 | 23 | This week, Tesla announced plans to buy SolarCity, Twilio IPOed, the NY State senate passed an anti-Airbnb bill and we discovered the world’s largest Nerf gun. Read on for a recap of the biggest tech stories of the week. The Elon Musk empire could soon be uniting. — also owned by Elon Musk. Together the companies cou... |
MassChallenge sets up camp in Switzerland | Bérénice Magistretti | 2,016 | 6 | 23 |
Lausanne, a small town in the Western part of Switzerland, has emerged as a surprising melting pot of innovative technology, and the latest feather in the town’s tech nest will be hosting the first Swiss chapter of . A large Boston-based accelerator program that is rapidly expanding across the globe, MassChallenge i... |
Uber switches out surge for price transparency | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 6 | 23 | No more pop-ups asking you to agree to those murky “2.1x” (or some other “x” amount) surge fares on the Uber app. Soon Uber will just tell you the price of your ride up front. Uber in May it was not doing away with surge pricing and denied an mentioning it would be killing surge. However, it seems Uber is doing away... |
Facial recognition systems stumble when confronted with million-face database | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 6 | 23 | We’re all a bit worried about the terrifying surveillance state that becomes possible when you cross omnipresent cameras with reliable facial recognition — that some of the best algorithms are far from infallible when it comes to sorting through a million or more faces. The University of Washington’s is an open com... |
Used BMW i batteries store solar power at home | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 6 | 23 | joins and in bringing energy storage home with its new system, which has yet to be given a catchy name. The system uses new or used batteries from the BMW i3 electric car to store power from solar panels for later use. It integrates with the charging station users are likely to have in the garage, so the stored en... |
How new tech can improve the loan process | Kyle Kamrooz | 2,016 | 6 | 23 |
Anyone who keeps up with the stock market is likely aware that is in . Anyone with professional lending experience is likely unphased by this. Peer-to-peer lending bypasses the regulations to which traditional lenders must adhere, which is why the concept took off during the 2008 recession, when lots of Americans ... |
Malala Fund co-founder Shiza Shahid, AngelList partner to back “mission-driven” startups | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 6 | 23 | During the at Stanford University today, , the equity fundraising platform, and activist announced a partnership to form a fund called NOW Ventures that will back what they’re calling “mission-driven” startups. That’s the latest label for businesses that want to make a positive social and environmental impact, whi... |
The Nintendo 64 turns 20 today | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 6 | 23 | It was on June 23, 1996 that the Nintendo 64 made its debut — in Japan, that is. We wouldn’t see it on this side of the Pacific for another three months. But today is its proper birthday, and 20 years is a significant enough anniversary that we should probably just take a moment to remember just how awesome this consol... |
Facebook Live grows up with two-person broadcasts and waiting rooms for viewers | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 6 | 23 | Today at VidCon Facebook pre-announced three new big product updates for Facebook Live, their live-streaming platform built into Facebook. The platform will soon let you do two-person remote broadcasts, pre-schedule your streams and create a virtual waiting room for viewers and broadcast with MSQRD’s face masks. The fi... |
People are Facebook Live-ing the House sit-in too, Zuckerberg points out | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 6 | 23 | After Republicans declared the House in recess during a Democratic protest demanding a vote on gun control, the cameras on the floor turned off — . The use of Periscope to document the sit-in has captured the hearts and minds of internetgoers, who proclaim the live-streaming app a necessity for liberty. Mark Zuckerberg... |
Storyboard helps you turn mobile photos into digital stories and books | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 6 | 23 | Even though printing photos is no longer the only means of viewing and sharing them with others, people still often want to do something more meaningful with these images — especially those of their family and children — than simply sharing them via ephemeral social media posts. A new application called , launching to... |
Samsung will acquire cloud-computing company Joyent | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 6 | 15 | that it has agreed to acquire cloud-computing company . In a statement, the Korean tech giant said that the transaction (its financial terms were undisclosed) will allow it to grow its cloud-based services for its smartphones and Internet-connected devices. Joyent will become part of Samsung’s mobile communications ... |
Despite troubled online lending market, Payoff raises a big new round | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 6 | 15 | , a 7.5-year-old Costa Mesa, Ca., startup that makes loans for people looking to pay off credit card debt, has just raised a bunch of money and it’s looking to raise even more. According to a new , the company has raised $46.7 million as part of a round expected to close at $67.4 million. The company had previously ra... |
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Didi Chuxing completes $7.3B financing round that includes Apple’s $1B investment | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 6 | 15 | , the largest ride-hailing app in China, confirmed today that it has closed a $7.3 billion financing round that includes its recent investments from Apple and China Life. The news was , whose sources say Didi Chuxing’s valuation is now pegged at more than [the story has been updated to say $28 billion]. The company ... |
Columbus, Ohio officially winner of DOT Smart City Challenge and $140 million in innovation grants | Jay Donovan | 2,016 | 6 | 23 | With the Columbus Dispatch (and many possible runner-up cities) that Columbus was the winner of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s , official word was silent until this afternoon. Today in Columbus, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx officially recognized and announced — to a full house at the Dougla... |
Former Startup Battlefield competitor Satago raises £4.6m to help small businesses get paid | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,016 | 6 | 23 | Back in November, TechCrunch , a U.K. fintech startup that was looking to help freelancers and other small business owners get paid on time. Satago started that lets users see how well (or poorly) companies are at paying invoices in a timely fashion, and has tools such as automated invoices, reminders, payment reque... |
Good VR is great — and bad VR is abysmal | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 6 | 15 | VR to be boring. It’s strange to think that something so futuristic and promising, something we’ve looked forward to for decades, be boring, but I can’t deny it, since I’ve experienced it myself. The fact is that with hundreds of companies joining the VR gold rush, we’re going to be panning a lot of silt for every g... |
Marketing tech company Performance Horizon raises $15.4M | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 6 | 15 | , a company aiming to help advertisers manage their relationships with marketing partners, is announcing that it has raised $15.4 million in Series C funding. The company says that with its software, brands and agencies can bypass the affiliate networks that online publishers usually rely on to get paid by marketers fo... |
FBI built a massive facial recognition database without proper oversight | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 6 | 15 | The FBI steadily, stealthily compiled a massive facial recognition database without oversight and in disregard of federal law, according to a report released today by the Government Accountability Office. The bombshell reveals that the FBI dipped into driver’s license photo databases from 16 states, as well as passpo... |
How do you truly secure the connected car? | Oren Betzaleli | 2,016 | 6 | 15 |
We’ve become accustomed to staying connected whenever and wherever we are. From Instagramming our exotic summer vacations to receiving alerts from our smartwatches about our next meeting — even ordering groceries via our mobile devices to skip the line — we have more than enough ways to stay tuned in 24/7. For better... |
The Apple Watch needs an ‘OK’ button | Matthew Panzarino | 2,016 | 6 | 15 | needs an action button. Something to allow you to confirm, acknowledge, activate and navigate using a physical press. There’s even a button right there, on the side, waiting for the task. The button, located right below the scroll wheel, was originally used by Apple for the People function. So few folks used this feat... |
Skillz is the biggest e-sports company gamers have never heard of | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 6 | 15 | The very mention of e-sports tends to conjure up titles like Bethesda’s Quake, the arena shooter, or Valve’s Dota 2 and Riot’s League of Legends, both arena battle games, which are played by professionals for piles of cash with prize pools in the millions of dollars. But a San Francisco startup called paid out 21% of... |
HTC’s Mixed Reality demo shows onlookers what it’s like to experience VR | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 6 | 15 | In these earliest days of commercial viability, virtual reality is running up against the same wall as so many technologies before it: how does a company translate it for the majority of consumers who won’t be able to demo it in the wild? HTC’s mixed reality is an interesting sort of work around, adding augmented reali... |
Hoodline launches Neighborhood Kits that package local news and data for real estate agents | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 6 | 15 | After building out an editorial team , CEO Andrew Dudley said the startup has begun to explore new ways to make money. Not that Hoodline has been avoiding revenue, but the only way it has monetized until now is through advertising. Dudley told me the team agreed that Hoodline’s long-term business needs more than ads... |
Uber settles on $7.5 million in background checks lawsuit | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 6 | 15 | Uber faces a of legal troubles these days – the latest involves a court settlement of $7.5 million for background checks. Uber has agreed to pay the $7.5 million sum to a group of San Francisco drivers alleging the company acquired consumer background reports without asking them first. Uber also agreed to pay to San... |
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